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...shrieking and shouting commonplaces at one's elbow-mates . . . and when there is a band-and there usually is-the pandemonium is complete, and there is nothing to approach it but hell on a Sunday night." He begins to remember imagined slights. He had met the young Boer War correspondent, Winston Churchill, could not get a word in edgewise. Did you have a good time? somebody asked him. Said Twain glumly: "I have had a smoke...
...South Africa, Boer farmers who snared storks arriving on their annual 7,000-mile migration from Holland, found attached to their legs such messages as: "We inhabitants of Bergen-op-Zoom tell you German occupation is just hell...
Died. General Sir Charles Harington Harington, 68, veteran of the Boer War and World War I (Flanders and Near East campaigns), Governor of Gibraltar through most of the Spanish Civil War and, as such, Neville Chamberlain's adviser on Spain; in retirement at Cheltenham, England. In 1939 he said: "That Spain under Franco is going to be dictated to by either Hitler or Mussolini, I just don't believe and never have...
...turned over near Florence, Ariz. Pennsylvania-born (but publicized as Western-born, Indian-blooded), he rough-rode with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt through the Spanish-American War, did not go West until he was 26, joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke...
...walls and poles of the Transvaal this handbill was pasted one day during the Boer War. It described a young newspaper reporter who had fought like a professional soldier when a British armored train was ambushed by Boers; had been captured and held as prisoner of war, had climbed over the ten-foot iron fence of his prison with no map or compass, but a little money and some cubes of chocolate in his pockets, and had eventually taken refuge at the bottom of a mine. It described and-with the exception of the age and the mustache, which...